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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I highly recommend "The Girl Sleuth" by Bobbie Ann Mason to everyone in this thread. (Not in eBook, sadly.)
But, yeah, the "no mom! go wild!" thing was definitely escapist fantasy.  |
And yet I didn't regard it as escapist when I was a kid - I grew up on a farm and my friends and I had both lots of responsibility and lots of freedom, just as Trixie and her friends did. It seems odd now, but that's because kids are held to be more immature than they were a generation or two ago.